Barrett-Jackson, known as having "The Greatest Car Show on Earth", will auction these two vehicles off on March 29th at their four day event running from the 27th till the 30th. These are genuine vehicles, and while it doesn't explicitly state, are most likely screen used. The one catch tho? You have to buy in a pair.

It seems we missed an appearance by "KITT" last week. In order to help support Knight Rider, Conan O'Brien had his desk retro fitted with a Voice Modulator reminiscent of the new KITT. For four minutes Conan and KITT discussed the new show and his many "advanced" features.

Program Note! Will Arnett, who was to have played the voice of KITT in the new Knight Rider movie, is scheduled to be a guest tonight on Conan O'Brien, we'd recommend everyone watch, as much as Conan ribs Knight Rider constantly, we can't see him not bringing the topic up. Conan airs at 12:35am on NBC.

The ratings for last nights encore of Knight Rider are in! While not the 12.7 million of last week, it still held it's own against competition in it's time slot. It also increased viewers by over 2 million from it's lead in show My Dad is Better Than Your Dad.

Broadcasting Cable ran a story today dealing with NBC's newly announced UpFront Plan. UpFronts are what the TV stations use to introduce the new seasons shows to advertisers. While the majority of the article didn't deal with anything important to Knight Rider fans, the last bit of the article has a quote mentioning Knight Rider by NBC Entertainment co-chair Marc Graboff.

NBC's meetings with advertisers also may not have locked in dates for everything. Graboff said. For example, it may present strategies such as running a show like Heroes without repeats for a spell in the fall, then bringing it back at a certain time later in the year.

"We don't know that this schedule will say, 'On this particular Monday in January 2009 will be the return of Knight Rider,'" Graboff said.

Note, that they aren't saying Knight Rider will be on in January 2009, but rather talking to the fact that their schedule will remain fluid for some time. Still - it's always a good sign to see an Exec name drop Knight Rider.

In an article published in the New York Times, Ben Silverman was quoted as saying that the success of the picture on Sunday night, means good things for a potential series.

Ben Silverman, the other co-chairman of NBC Entertainment, who will travel the country with Mr. Graboff making the presentations to advertisers, has been an advocate of linking advertisers to shows. He made a deal with Ford Motor Company, for example, to supply the car used in a remake of the 1980s series "Knight Rider." A version of that aired Sunday night on NBC as a made-for-TV movie, and Mr. Silverman said Tuesday that its ratings success makes it a likely addition to NBC's schedule when it is announced in April.

It goes without saying that the internet is completely abuzz with discussions of the Knight Rider movie. Our forums practically melted last night, as it saw it's highest traffic ever!

Ratings for the movie have also started to trickle out:

"EM: Home Edition" jumped up to 8.4/13 at 9 p.m., keeping ABC on top. NBC's "Knight Rider" movie/back-door pilot scored a 6.9/10 to take second, beating "Cold Case," 6.1/9, on CBS. "Family Guy," 4.3/6, and "American Dad," 3.3/5, were fourth for FOX. The CW finished its night with reruns of "Girlfriends" and "The Game."

At 10 p.m., "Knight Rider" delivered a 7.3/12 (and a healthy 5.1 adults 18-49 rating) for NBC. ABC's "Brothers & Sisters" posted a 5.7/9, while the debut of a cleaned-up "Dexter" on CBS earned a 5.2/9.

This basically means that every half hour, the viewership kept increasing. [Zap2It] Now it's in NBC's hands to decide if it goes to series.

So what did you all think of it? If you were one read and believe the other sites - you would be hard pressed to not think negatively of it, but that wouldn't be fair. These sites are mostly built around communities that feed off negativity - as negativity fuels discussion, and arguements - you wont see that here. Of course we are biased towards Knight Rider.

What did we think of it? We love it. While it is impossible to capture the series of our youth, they did a terrfic job creating an environment where the mythos we know is able to stay alive, while providing interesting characters in high action situations that can lead to great story arcs down the line.

It's really tough for anyone to relaunch a series that so many have near and dear to their hearts. But unlike Knight Rider 2000, or Team Knight Rider, David Andron did a fantastic job trying to stay true to the original core point of Knight Rider. Knight Rider wasn't about KITT being a Pontiac, that is too superficial. At the core Knight Rider was about one Man and the realtionship with his car, and you'ld be hard pressed to argue that this movie wasn't able to acheive that. Remember, that Knight Rider had 4 seasons to grow from, this is just an hour and 20 minutes of the beginning. We fully expect the relationships that we were just introduced to to grow, for the action to increase, and for the respect of this mythology to continue and flurish.

This is taking Knight Rider into the future, it's not the 1980s anymore.

NBC has done some last minute posting by putting on line four commercials that we believe will air tonight on NBC. These commercials feature Mike and KITT in Four different chapters: Suspicion, Guilt, The Date and the Alone Again.

The basic plot of the commercials is Mike taking a Ford Focus to a date, and KITT gets jealous. These commercials are voiced by Val Kilmer and also show a sneak peak at KITTs gages. They are a nice complement to the show, rather than an in your face "buy a ford" type commercials that it could have been.

Win a Car from Ford!: There's a Ford-sponsored sweepstakes in which people who tune in to the show on Sunday can win one of four new cars--The top prize is a limited edition Shelby Mustang GT 500 KR (the car that KITT's based off).

He was kind enough to provide us with construction photos of how a Mustang became a KITT. These photos show the Mustangs in various states of construction, and shows multiple versions of KITT such as Attack Mode, the cage driven one as well as Interior shots.

Building on a career as a Transportation Coordinator since the 90s and a long time love of cars, Ted Moser opened Picture Car Warehouse in 2003. Five years later he is the man behind the construction of the new KITT in the new Knight Rider airing this Sunday. We spoke to him about the process of bringing conceptual drawings to drivable machines.

We also have an exclusive gallery of the cars being constructed - and will post that later today.

Last night NBC premiered Knight Rider at the Playboy Mansion. In attendance was the cast of the new Knight Rider as well as members of The Office, American Gladiators and Heroes. Adam Corolla and Danny Bonaduce hosted.

NBC aired the longest commercial trailer yet. We show how KITT finds Sarah, KITT meeting Mike, and plot details that might be a bit spoilerish. There is pretty amazing shots of KITT being hit in the windshield and "repairing" himself, and of course lots of action. If you want to keep clear of spoilers - you might want to stop watching thse.

Also another clip that had been airing recently is a Ford commercial talking about how in conjunction with Knight Rider they will be giving away four cars, one being a Mustang. That video is after the jump.

We are back with part 2 of our exclusive interview with Deanna Russo - who plays Sarah Graiman, daughter of Charles Graiman - creator of the Knight Industries Three Thousand and childhood friend of Mike Traceur.

Familiar to faces as Logan Armstrong in the Young and the Restless, Deanna Russo comes to Knight Rider very eager for action. In the NBC Knight Rider movie airing February 17th, Deanna plays Sarah Graiman, daughter of Charles Graiman - creator of the Knight Industries Three Thousand and childhood friend of Mike Traceur. We speak to her about her characters pivotal role.

After a successful career in security in the entertainment industry protecting people like Arsenio Hall, En Vouge and Toni Braxton; he decided he wanted to give acting a chance, and fulfill a life long dream. On Sunday February 17th you can see him in the character of "Smoke" as part of an elite force trying to capture KITT

Knight Rider Online has gotten the exclusive on the new voice of KITT. In what will come as a surprise to many, Will Arnett is no longer the voice of KITT in the new Knight Rider movie. We had heard about this about a month ago, but didn't want to break anything about it until we heard solid of a replacement.

According to what we have heard, Will Arnett has an established career in voice over work, in particular with GMC Trucks. This would be a conflict for him, as Ford is the primary sponsor of the new Knight Rider movie, and he had to drop out.

So this sent the crew of Knight Rider searching for a replacement. And that came yesterday with Val Kilmer. Val Kilmer, star of such films as Top Gun, The Doors, Batman Forever, Heat, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, will be stepping in to voice the Knight Industries Three Thousand. He met with the producers last night, tried it out, and everyone was pleased.

I mentioned last week there would be an announcement, well here it is, and only on KRO.

Will Arnett has had to back out of voicing KITT because of a contractual conflict. This happened a few weeks ago.

I was asked not to release this information until they figured out what they were going to do. Finally, as of last night, contracts with the replacement have been signed.

The new voice of KITT will be...Val Kilmer. He's a bona-fide movie star who has not done a lot of television, a very smart guy with and great voice and a lot of range, and the producers are very happy with the choice. They start today to re-voice the movie.

While we are a fan of Will Arnetts, and very sad to hear that he had a conflict, we are very excited to have someone with such caliber as Val Kilmer on board, and look forward to hearing him as KITT very soon.

Sydney Tamiia Poitier plays Carrie Rivai, an FBI agent with connections to Charles Graiman, who in this version created the original KITT and the new Knight Industries Three Thousand. We were fortunate to speak to her about her character via telephone on January 17th.

We were thrilled to get the chance to speak to David Bartis. Mr. Bartis is the Executive Producer of the new Knight Rider Pilot and we spoke to him via phone at the Dutch Oven offices on January 9th 2008. This is the first part of a two part interview.